Aboën

Loire · Saint-Étienne Métropole · INSEE 42001

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 23.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aboën (INSEE 42001) is in Loire (42), part of Saint-Étienne Métropole. Population 481 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42001-aboen

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,860 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (DAMIEN FLEURANCE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	DAMIEN FLEURANCE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 246 2023: 481 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 396 (2012) → 481 (2023): 21.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 186 (1990) → 481 (2023): 158.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 250, of which 12 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.8 km NEGP — 3.8 km WBakery — 4.1 km WFood shop — 4.1 km EPharmacy — 5.2 km W Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Saint-Nizier-de-Fornas): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Maurice-en-Gourgois): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Tourette): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Bonnet-le-Château): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Périgneux): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.7

Days at or below 0 °C 66.3

Muggy days a summer 11.3▸

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the ST-BONNET-LE-CHATEAU_SAPC weather station, 5.1 km away at 822 m; the village itself is at 713 m. ^[13]

The village sits 109 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ST-BONNET-LE-CHATEAU_SAPC, 5.1 km away at 822 m, over 10 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 109 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 936 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at ST-B-CHAT - MAN, 5 km away at 861 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42001/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42001/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42001/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42001/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42266
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42262
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42204
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42169
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Osmanville	14	586 km NW	510	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %
Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière	71	181 km N	445	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Boussais	79	372 km NW	446	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 64 %
Courant	17	372 km W	445	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 43 %
Entre-deux-Eaux	88	381 km NE	510	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Ambrumesnil	76	547 km NW	520	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière	71	181 km N	445	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Courant	17	372 km W	445	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 43 %
Boussais	79	372 km NW	446	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 64 %
Entre-deux-Eaux	88	381 km NE	510	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Ambrumesnil	76	547 km NW	520	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 29 %
Osmanville	14	586 km NW	510	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Aboën's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Échebrune	17	359 km W	480	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Nizier-de-Fornas	42	4.1 km W	655	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Colombe-sur-Gand	42	53 km N	384	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Marols	42	9.7 km NW	462	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Virigneux	42	35 km NE	618	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Crozet	42	87 km N	252	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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